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UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person who comes out of the place. What does the person do? Exercise #1 What is the Parakeet saying to the Cat? And what is the reply? After writing the dialogue, write the subtext-- what the animals really want or think-- or what the unseen human beings are thinking/doing.

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Impossible Questions Examples:  The colour purple smells of spring flowers in full bloom, dripping with the sweet sticky scent of everything that is new.  Silence sounds like the deepest darkest depths of the ocean.  Silence is when the chatter of the mind ceases-- worry, desire, anxiety, expectation die and the mind is a blank slate of stillness

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Page 1: CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person

CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP

Choose one to respond to.

Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person who comes out of the place. What does the person do?

Exercise #1

What is the Parakeet saying to the Cat? And what is the reply?

After writing the dialogue, write the subtext-- what the animals really want or think-- or what the unseen human beings are thinking/doing.

Page 2: CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person

Autobiographical Writing Warm up

What is an autobiography? Why might someone choose to write

one?

Write about a time that you felt afraid of something. What was it that scared you? Why? What was the outcome?

Page 3: CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person

Impossible QuestionsExamples: The colour purple smells of spring flowers in

full bloom, dripping with the sweet sticky scent of everything that is new.

Silence sounds like the deepest darkest depths of the ocean.

Silence is when the chatter of the mind ceases--worry, desire, anxiety, expectation die and the mind is a blank slate of stillness

Page 4: CREATIVE WRITING WARM UP Choose one to respond to. Describe what you see in this photo. Describe what you don't see-- the interior. Describe the person

Other impossible questions… Who is fear?

What does love look like?

What does red smell like?

What does hate say?

What does fear taste like?